RSS

gordonbrander + wordpress   57

Project Argo
Project Argo is a collection of tools and best practices for building topic-focused sites in WordPress
This is great: not just the tools, but the lessons learned. It's basically a roadmap for creating a mid-sized publication.
development  wordpress  journalism  writing  learn 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012 — Tech News and Analysis
Matt Mullenwig on open web culture. There are some interesting thoughts here.
opensource  culture  wordpress  writing 
january 2012 by gordonbrander
Custom user taxonomies in WordPress
You can register custom taxonomies to any object type in WordPress. Who knew?
wordpress  development  learn 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
Translating WordPress Plugins and Themes: Don’t Get Clever | Mark on WordPress
D'oh. Of course, you can't use variables or constants to key translations, since GNU Gettext needs to be able to access the data (and can't parse variables).
wordpress  i18n  web  development 
october 2011 by gordonbrander
markjaquith/WP-TLC-Transients - GitHub
A WordPress transients interface with support for soft-expiration (use old content until new content is available), background updating of the transients (without having to wait for a cron job), and a chainable syntax that allows for one liners.
wordpress  library  opensource  development  php 
september 2011 by gordonbrander
WordPress › Debug Bar « WordPress Plugins
wordpress  plugin  opensource  development 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
WordPress › Markdown on Save « WordPress Plugins
This plugin allows you to compose content in Markdown on a per-item basis. The markdown version is stored separately (in the post_content_formatted column), so you can deactivate this plugin and your posts won't spew out Markdown, because HTML is stored in the post_content, just like normal. This is also much faster than doing on-the-fly Markdown conversion on every page load.
markdown  wordpress  plugin  opensource 
august 2011 by gordonbrander
Developer Documentation — WordPress.com
WordPress.com has opened up an API for interacting with the service. Nice.
wordpress  development  reference 
july 2011 by gordonbrander
pressfs – A WordPress Filesystem | Joseph Scott
Joseph Scott has created a plugin that creates an accessible file system for WordPress. Crazy!
python  wordpress 
may 2011 by gordonbrander
WordPress.com API Key
It's stupid hard to find this.
wordpress 
may 2011 by gordonbrander
WordPress › Batcache « WordPress Plugins
A more flexible cache using Memcached, where file-based caching is not practical.
cache  performance  wordpress  plugin 
may 2011 by gordonbrander
Data Validation « WordPress Codex
A nice overview of validating and sanitizing data in WP.
wordpress  security  development  web 
april 2011 by gordonbrander
WordPress Jetpack
Run WordPress.com-hosted plugins on your self-hosted blog. Clever idea.
wordpress  plugin 
march 2011 by gordonbrander
Commentpress
A WordPress theme and plugin pair that allow for paragraph-by-paragraph commenting for developing tech books.
wordpress  writing  collaboration  opensource  theme  plugin  book 
march 2011 by gordonbrander
Multiple Post Thumbnails « WordPress Plugins
Multiple featured images. Does what it says on the tin.
wordpress  plugin  opensource 
december 2010 by gordonbrander
WordPress Theme-Check « WordPress Plugins
Lovely!
wordpress  theme  plugin  opensource  test  development  tool 
december 2010 by gordonbrander
How to become a WordPress Theme Reviewer
The process. It's all open-source and available to anyone who wants to pitch in.
wordpress  theme  development 
october 2010 by gordonbrander
Function Reference/wp localize script « WordPress Codex
Localize variables within an enqueued script.
wordpress  plugin  theme  development  learn 
october 2010 by gordonbrander
Use Google Libraries « WordPress Plugins
Automagically swap out WordPress' jQuery/Dojo/Prototype/etc files for those on the Google CDN.
jquery  wordpress  javascript  plugin  opensource  performance 
september 2010 by gordonbrander
wp_enqueue_style, versioning and conditional CSS comments - Content Management, CSS, development, WordPress, WordPress theme, wp_enqueue_style
Great tips on handling assets in WordPress, including pulling version number from Stylesheet and Conditional Comments.
wordpress  css  development  learn 
september 2010 by gordonbrander
WordPress › Ajax Comment Preview
Nice!
wordpress  plugin  opensource  development 
august 2010 by gordonbrander
WordPress Coding Standards « WordPress Codex
A good starting point.
development  wordpress  php  learn 
august 2010 by gordonbrander
WordPress Theme Unit Test « WordPress Codex
A handy WXR full of dummy content for WordPress theming.
test  wordpress  theme  development  pattern 
august 2010 by gordonbrander
WordPress Members Plugin
Really full-featured plugin for managing roles and access in WordPress. Lets you edit and create roles, force login for your site (gatekeeping), set access to content based on role, wrap content in a role shortcode (hiding it from others), widgets, template tags, etc.
plugin  wordpress  cms  opensource 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
Grunion Contact Form: WordPress Plugins
Finally, out of the bazillions of contact forms out there for WordPress, a decent offering. It only took Automattic to create it. What's up with the name though?

Update: it sure could use a few more filters. Patch?
wordpress  plugin  opensource 
june 2010 by gordonbrander
Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0
Looking good.
wordpress  development  learn 
april 2010 by gordonbrander
WordPress Beta Tester plugin: Making it easy to be a WordPress Tester « westi on wordpress
Doing this.
plugin  wordpress  development  opensource 
april 2010 by gordonbrander
The Gippy Pages: Everything I know about optimizing a WordPress install
wordpress  performance 
march 2010 by gordonbrander
Working with WordPress 2.9 Post Thumbnail Images
Nice overview from M Jaquith, the guy who developed the feature.
wordpress  development  api 
january 2010 by gordonbrander
OpenSearch « WordPress Plugins
...someone has already done it. The OpenSearch plugin for WordPress
wordpress  plugin  opensource  api  search 
december 2009 by gordonbrander
OpenSearch
Open format for auto-detecting search API endpoints. Could this be added to WordPress?
api  search  opensource  wordpress 
december 2009 by gordonbrander
Subtraction.com: Really Basic Maths
Khoi Vinh gives a visual overview of the steps he went through to design his Basic Maths WordPress theme.
design  wordpress  theme  grid  swiss  inspiration 
december 2009 by gordonbrander
WordPress Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin
Re-builds all of your thumbnails if the sizes change, so you don't have to re-upload them.
wordpress  image  plugin  opensource 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
The Hero Is In Your Pocket
WordPress.com has added WP Mobile.
wordpress  mobile 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
CoPress
Managed hosting for student newspapers through WordPress.
journalism  wordpress  hosting 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
WordPress MU Domain Mapping « WordPress Plugins
Allows you to map a blog to a custom domain.
wordpress  plugin  opensource 
november 2009 by gordonbrander
WordPress users: USE A FAVICON!
Nice catch by Parker. We're submitting a core patch to WordPress to fix this.
wordpress  mod_rewrite  apache 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
RSS in the Clouds
WordPress.com adds support for RSSCloud. Automattic is continually ahead of the curve.
rss  realtime  atom  xml  wordpress  twitter  notification  feed 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
How The New York Times uses blogs
VentureBeat author (who also blogs for the NYT) on how the NYT uses WordPress, division of labor and good editors to run a high-quality, efficient, large-scale blogging arm. It's not rocket science, but it is interesting to see it in action.
business  blog  management  wordpress  process 
september 2009 by gordonbrander
Terms of Service « WordPress.com
WordPress.com released this TOS as Creative Commons. A great legal template.
legal  web  business  wordpress  creativecommons  opensource  template 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
The Future of WordPress (WordCamp Montréal)
In which I get a mention for the WordPress blue theme.
wordpress  design  portfolio  me 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
SlidePress: Integration for SlideShowPro and WordPress
Looks fairly professional
slideshow  flash  wordpress  plugin  opensource  php  photo  tool 
august 2009 by gordonbrander
John Resig - Easy Retweet Button
Clever little bit of JS that hooks into bit.ly's API and shows how many people linked back to your page. Use on site?
twitter  development  jquery  javascript  wordpress 
july 2009 by gordonbrander
Straight from Google: What You Need to Know
"WordPress does 80%-90% of SEO"
wordpress  blog  marketing  search 
july 2009 by gordonbrander
VideoPress
"Quick and easy HD video sharing from WordPress". WordPress enters the hosted video market.
publishing  opensource  wordpress  plugin  embed  blog  film 
may 2009 by gordonbrander
DiSo Project
Open social networks via WordPress plugins
wordpress  plugin  semantic  web  development  community  microformat  openid  opensource 
february 2009 by gordonbrander
MobilePress - Enable The Mobile Web
WordPress plugin by South African developer
wordpress  plugin  mobile  blog  opensource  ios 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
Anderson Cooper 360
Anderson Cooper is meh, but this is a well-designed news blog theme.
journalism  design  inspiration  wordpress  *** 
january 2009 by gordonbrander
WordPress Video Solution Framework
WPMU plugin by Automattic for handling video content.
plugin  framework  media  web  development  wordpress  mu  newmedia  film 
december 2008 by gordonbrander
Moving wp-content outside of the wordpress install directory
wordpress  cms  development  web 
december 2008 by gordonbrander
Pods
A plugin for Wordpress allowing complex content categorization (Tagline: turns wordpress into a full-fledged CMS). It has it's own domain. Looks pretty legit.
cms  wordpress  plugin  web  development 
december 2008 by gordonbrander
Collapsing WordPress Widget-Ready Sidebars
Check to see if your sidebar is empty, and make it disappear if it is. On a side note, this blog looks mighty interesting: there's some quality thought being put behind theming here.
wordpress  code  development  theme  widget 
august 2008 by gordonbrander
DBS Interactive: WordPress Function List
Handy little single-page reference.
wordpress  cms  learn 
july 2008 by gordonbrander
Quommunication
Actually good premium Wordpress themes.
wordpress  theme  business  design  premium 
june 2008 by gordonbrander
Premium Wordpress themes: Are they here to stay?
Smashing Magazine puts together a great rundown of premium Wordpress "magazine" themes, what works and what doesn't.
blog  theme  wordpress  business  premium 
may 2008 by gordonbrander
Introducing Prologue: a twitter-like theme for Wordpress teams
A good way for small teams to keep up with each other (not to mention a crazy-cool repurposing of Wordpress).
wordpress  twitter  community  development  microblogging  blog 
february 2008 by gordonbrander
Scribbish Theme for Blogs
It looks like this has some wise design and development choices.
theme  wordpress  blog 
november 2007 by gordonbrander

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: